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A hivex security update has been released for Fedora 33.



SECURITY: Fedora 33 Update: hivex-1.3.21-1.fc33


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2021-775b170f95
2021-08-18 01:16:40.115663
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Name : hivex
Product : Fedora 33
Version : 1.3.21
Release : 1.fc33
URL :   http://libguestfs.org/
Summary : Read and write Windows Registry binary hive files
Description :
Hive files are the undocumented binary files that Windows uses to
store the Windows Registry on disk. Hivex is a library that can read
and write to these files.

'hivexsh' is a shell you can use to interactively navigate a hive
binary file.

'hivexregedit' (in perl-hivex) lets you export and merge to the
textual regedit format.

'hivexml' can be used to convert a hive file to a more useful XML
format.

In order to get access to the hive files themselves, you can copy them
from a Windows machine. They are usually found in
%systemroot%\system32\config. For virtual machines we recommend
using libguestfs or guestfish to copy out these files. libguestfs
also provides a useful high-level tool called 'virt-win-reg' (based on
hivex technology) which can be used to query specific registry keys in
an existing Windows VM.

For OCaml bindings, see 'ocaml-hivex-devel'.

For Perl bindings, see 'perl-hivex'.

For Python 3 bindings, see 'python3-hivex'.

For Ruby bindings, see 'ruby-hivex'.

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Update Information:

New upstream version 1.3.21. Fixes CVE-2021-3622 limit recursion in ri-records.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Aug 2 2021 Richard W.M. Jones - 1.3.21-1
- New upstream version 1.3.21.
- Fixes CVE-2021-3622 limit recursion in ri-records.
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1975489 - CVE-2021-3622 hivex: stack overflow due to recursive call of _get_children()
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975489
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-775b170f95' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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